[TheForge] Soldering Stainless- or welding

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

" so-called silver solder sold by jewelers supply outfits are 
nothing more
 > than short lengths of standard silver braze wire, snipped from 
standard
 > reasonably priced spools, and then sold in plastic baggies-for 
outrageous
 > prices. Drug dealers have nothing on these guys, and it's all 
legal to boot!"
Mikey, just for clarity's sake...there are a whole range of both 
color and/or temperature specific silver solders available from 
jeweler's supplies. Also there is a very strong nickle-copper 
based " silver solder" available...and a whole bunch of others.
Anytime you just buy a couple of sticks of a metal, you are 
paying for a lot of packaging, shipping, handling and putting up 
with you.
In our modern world, the latter, seems to be irritatingly 
expensive...pete f
 >

Michael wrote:
> Mark,
> Definitely not; both the wife (who loves beer) and I are fighting the battle
> of the bulge. Your hobby would amount to a disaster in our family :-)
> 
> I simply ran across the reference during my on-line research of filler rods
> and techniques. I favor beginning my product studies using the Web for an
> overview, than writing to the more legitimate companies involved and testing
> their products to separate the wheat from the chaff. This method is
> expensive and time-consuming due to the sheer amount of hype out there, but
> is also more inclusive, tending to unearth answers where I didn't even know
> there were questions. The vision enhancement article in The Hammer's Blow
> was condensed from part of a book chapter that wouldn't even have been
> written without the kind of serendipity Web research fosters.
> 
> I recently made a break-through aluminum filler alloy discovery, after
> months of frustration, by simply changing the input terminology. It turns
> out that most of the so called miracle aluminum solder alloys are simply Ney
> Metals "Ney 380" repackaged and sold for outrageous prices, just like the
> so-called silver solder sold by jewelers supply outfits are nothing more
> than short lengths of standard silver braze wire, snipped from standard
> reasonably priced spools, and then sold in plastic baggies-for outrageous
> prices. Drug dealers have nothing on these guys, and it's all legal to boot!
> 
> Mikey
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mark A. Pesetsky
> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:17 AM
> To: Sponsored by ABANA
> Subject: RE: [TheForge] Soldering Stainless- or welding
> 
>  
> 
> 
> (Google home-built beer making equipment for a quick introduction to the
> subject, but you will find lots more-if you have the time to look-as
> warnings attached to various SS oxy-fuel filler rods)
> 
> You home brew Mike?
> 
> I just finished 2 batches...10 gallons. First 5 gallons is a Bluberry
> American Wheat and the 2nd 5 Gallons is an American IPA. But I think
> that it tastes closer to a Hennepin.
> 
> Mark
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